DUNEDIN WOOL SALES.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 11790, 13 January 1904, Page 9

DUNEDIN WOOL SALES.

(PBEdS ASSOCIATION* TELEGRAM.) 1 DUNEDIN, January 12. \ Tlie first wool sale of the season was J held4o-day. Owing to U» reseat unsettled 1

! weather and the scarcity of shearers, the I euantity to hind was 5000 bake ehorfc of I J*Tt year. Heavy losses by snowstorms j htt'2 also a matwiol effect on the quantity 1 otftred. The number id balta catalogued ( Jas 14,007. There was a krge attendance a' buyers, both local and. fwreign. The wool was, on the whole, bright and light in grease. There waa k««a competition, and prices for crossbred and. low grade wools were qult3 Id to ia advance of the corresponding eale last jeur, Halfbreds elia-red to conic t-xtent- in tlie udvanoe, but best merinos ma.de but little improvement. The following is the range of price*: — Merino superior. Hd to llAd. medium to pood 9id to inferior 7d to Bid; halfUreds, superior 10d to IW, medyim to good 8d to Sid. inferior 6Jd to 7id; line cosisbreds, superior 8»i<l to 9d, medium to good ?id to Sil, inferior 6id to 7d; crojwbred. suiTcrior 74d to Bd, medium to good 6jd to7d.